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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Is Congress Wooing Varun Gandhi To Cross Over From BJP?
By Rahil Nora Chopra After former Union minister Jitin Prasada, once close to Rahul Gandhi, crossed over to the BJP, now Congress may be all set to stage a virtual coup in the family of Indira Gandhi’s estranged daughter-in-law Maneka Gandhi by wooing her restive son BJP MP Varun...
Time Ripe For Removing The Sedition Law From Indian Statute Completely
By D Raja The recent Supreme Court decision in quashing sedition charges against Vinod Dua for his alleged criticism of the Prime Minister constitutes a hastening development for our country. Since 2014 onwards, sedition cases are slapped on people at an accelerated pace. 160 per cent rise in...
Fight For The Principles Of Federalism Is Integral To Battle Against Authoritarianism
By Prakash Karat Not a day passes without some attack on the federal structure and infringement of states’ rights taking place. If one day, the centre unilaterally announced a vaccine policy whereby states are asked to procure vaccines and pay for them, then another day, the chief secretary...
Cryptocurrency Trading Moves A Step Closer To Legitimacy
By K Raveendran Cryptocurrency, by its very nature, has been a millennial obsession and it is perhaps in the fitness of things that El Salvador under its millennial president Nayib Bukele has become the first ever country to declare bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, a legal currency. Bukele’s administration...
Indian People Have To Be Ready To Live With Long Covid For Quite Some Time
By Sushil Kutty As if the shorter version of Covid-19 wasn’t enough, there’s the Long Covid to contend with. The lucky ones get struck by a sudden halt to heart beat and the call from heaven! This happened to a TV journalist who had made enemies. Also to...
Foreign Investors Are Bullish At India’s Post- Pandemic Recovery
By Subrata Majumder Investment in India has plunged. Projects valued US $ 129 billion were dropped. New investment announced fell by over two-third in 2020-21, compared to its preceding year. In contrast, FDI in India increased by over 19 per cent, albeit global FDI fell by over 42.7...
Sardar Tarlochan Singh Was A Global Crusader For The Causes Of Sikhs
By Harihar Swarup Sardar Tarlochan Singh was very popular figure in Parliament even though he had only a short-term of three years in the Rajya Sabha. Apart from Parliament, he excelled in public relations. He was public relation man of the late President Gyani Zail Singh in Rashtrapati...
Tea Consumption Showing Steep Rise In Bangladesh As Living Standard Rises
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, the tea industry is thriving on the strength of rising income levels within the country. Apparently, because they earn more, people tend to drink more tea. Average per capita consumption has risen according to some estimates, almost five fold, from around 90 to...
Prashant Kishor, Mamata Banerjee And 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The ace poll strategist Prasant Kishor is back into action. After enjoying a holiday for one month following the gruelling elections in Bengal the results of which were out on May 2, PK beaming with his success after ensuring massive defeat of Modi-Shah duo in...
Modi Jolted Out Of Comfort Zone By Court, People’s Verdict
By K Raveendran It is now clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s indifference to the burning problems facing the country and creating a space for him to pursue his own agenda, which mostly pertained to the periphery of national life, in the process giving him much ease of...
BJP Battered By Hawala Heist: Case Against Party’s State Chief
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala is in the eye of a storm over the infamous Kodakara black money heist case. The scam has badly dented the image of the BJP. The ‘party with a difference’ has morphed into a party pockmarked with...
Yogi Adityanath’s Over-Dependency On Bureaucracy Harming BJP
By Sagarneel Sinha Six weeks ago Uttar Pradesh was recording over 30,000 daily covid-19 cases. Now, the same state is recording less than 1000 daily cases. The positivity rate of the state has dropped to just 0.33 from its peak of 16.74 registered back in April. This wouldn’t...
Opposition In Uttar Pradesh Is Gearing Up To Challenge BJP For Mission 2022
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition parties are gearing up to take on CM Yogi Adityanath as the main face of BJP for 2022 assembly polls. Since BJP and Sangh Parivar will contest UP elections on Hindutva agenda they have no option but to continue saffron clad Yogi Adityanath...
Socialism Or Barbarism? What’s At Stake In Peru
By Ben Chacko All eyes are on Peru as dictator’s daughter Keiko Fujimori gets her fraud allegations in even before results are declared. Fujimori is beating a familiar drum: the political right in Latin America routinely dismiss elections they don’t win as fraudulent. The last results...
Free vaccination Modi’s ‘My Way’ to political resurrection
By Sushil Kutty Post the West Bengal election results, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders were lost sheep, stumped for not knowing what to do and what to say, used as they were to singing praise of dear leader Narendra Modi, so cued they were to raise Modi’s larger than life...
Modi partially solves the problems of his own creation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of providing free vaccine for all adults of India has certainly solved a cross section of the problems of vaccination in the country for which he has been praised and thanked even though these were his own creation. Nevertheless, the...
Cong high command has to ensure total unity in Punjab party
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress leadership is engaged in damage control in Punjab with the political crisis threatening to go out of control. The high command is looking for a formula to calm down the tempers of the dissidents against the chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh. The Assembly elections...
Home Ministry order reignites citizenship debate
By Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi and Ibad Mushtaq Since the past week, social media platforms have been abuzz with posts about how the Ministry of Home Affairs has acted upon the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, even though no rules have yet been framed. The reason – an order issued...
